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HELP ! LCD Profiling

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Posted by Prashant Khapane on May 19, 2009 at 2:38 PM
I recently bought a NEC Multisync2170nx monitor and calibrated it using Eye1. Everything went smooth, however my images in Lightroom or Photoshop (the master files and all other too) have very washed out shadows now. I'm not sure what am I doing wrong. I routinely calibrated my monitor so I can not possibly do anything wrong there.
What about the luminance setting for LCDs, is 120 (default) too bright?

Please help. Any suggestions are welcome.
Posted by Ed Cordes on May 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM
I am not sure about the luminance setting, but before calibration I must turn the brightness way down - to about 15% or so. This makes up for the inherent brightness of LCD monitors compared to CRT.
Posted by John Mumaw on May 19, 2009 at 10:45 PM
This may sound simplistic, but simply turn down the luminance until it matches your prints (esp. shadow detail).
LCD monitors are too bright for photographers right out of the box, IMO.
Posted by Prashant Khapane on May 20, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Well, it seems I'm better off with CRTs than LCDs. :frown:
Posted by David Bostedo on May 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Well you might be better off from a brightness standpoint with a CRT than an LCD, but certainly most pros use LCDs these days, and printing gets better and better. And 120 luminance is probably the upper end that you would want - ideally closer to 100 would be better if you don't have to turn the monitor brightness down too far. I wouldn't go much below the 15% that Ed mentioned.
Posted by Anil Rao on May 20, 2009 at 4:32 PM
With my 30" Dell flat-monitor I need to set the brightness all the way down to '0'. That is the only way I can calibrate my monitor to show images that match what I get from my Epson 7600 printer. Actually, with this monitor, setting the brightness to anything above '0' is a sure path to premature blindness. :smile:
Posted by Paul Wegemann on May 21, 2009 at 7:39 AM
I agree about the brightness. I set mine to 95 on my Dell LCD and I'm happy with the way images look on screen and in print.
Posted by Wayne Willison on May 22, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Prashan, I have a Nec 2690WUXi with Spectraview on a pc. It's great, but I had to play with the settings at first. The settings I now use are 6500, 2.2, Luminence 100, and the contrast ratio at 400:1, which when calibrated the contrast ratio comes down to around 250:1, the desired amount.
I don't know where you've set the contrast ratio, but its imperative to get it down to around 250:1.